On April 30, 2016, was George Papadopoulos giving Professor Mifsud the expectation that Carter Page was believed to have been in attendance three days earlier at the Mayflower Hotel where Trump gave his first foreign policy speech?
Lawyers for Alfa Bank were interested in any Fusion GPS communications about "Trump’s April 27, 2016 speech at the Mayflower Hotel, (b) Richard Burt as a possible US Ambassador to Russia, and (c) communications with the Trump Transition team and/or Admin."
In or around that time (May 2016), Fusion GPS was busy conducting "research" with Slate's Franklin Foer about Carter Page, Richard Burt, and Alfa Bank.
N.B. Someone REALLY wanted to point out a detail that others had purportedly overlooked: Richard Burt's advisory of the Trump campaign in April 2016 was followed suspiciously close by the Alfa Bank-Trump Organization DNS server activity that supposedly had begun in May 2016.
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SEDDON:
Finally! Alexey Kovalec unravels the enigma that is Will Stewart, the man with a mysterious UK tabloid mini-agency churning out regurgitated garbage news about Russia.
BAUMGARTNER:
Huh, was convinced Will Stewart was Tom Parfitt in a wig and funny glasses...
"There, indeed, was an FBI wiretap involving Russians at Trump Tower. For two years ending in 2013, the FBI had a court-approved warrant to eavesdrop on a sophisticated Russian organized crime money-laundering network that operated out of unit 63A in Trump Tower in New York."
"Five months after the April 2013 indictment and after Interpol issued a “red notice” for Tokhtakhounov, the fugitive appeared near Donald Trump in the VIP section of the Moscow Miss Universe pageant. Trump had sold the Russian rights for Miss Universe to [Aras Agalarov]."
"Carter Page provided an April 15, 2013, briefing document authored by Russian trade diplomat, Ksenia Yudaeva, on Russia’s priorities for a summit of the 20 richest countries in the world to be held in St. Petersburg in September 2013." time.com/5132126/carter…
"According to published reports, the FBI obtained a first FISA warrant to eavesdrop on Page’s electronic communications during 2013."
IS THAT WHERE THIS STUPID RUMOR COMES FROM
Link goes to the infamous April 11, 2017, Washington Post article authored by Nakashima, Barrett, and Entous.
But, bad as the Post can be, there's no mention of a 2013 FISA on Carter Page in here...